Tuesday, November 15, 2016

New Releases 2016 (Nov 16)

Dr.
Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated
bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a
twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble
real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid
the agent leading the case — even if that agent is her estranged
husband.

Twelve years ago an unspeakable tragedy
destroyed Dakota Sharp’s world. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, he’s
devoted himself to capturing killers. His only regret is that it cost
him Tessa. Now, as the Dollmaker case brings them together — and raises
his suspicions that he’s crossed paths with this deranged psychopath
before — they may just have their second chance. But it seems Dakota’s
not the only one who wants to make Tessa his own.

She
may be the Dollmaker’s next target, but Tessa has no intention of
winding up as another toy on his shelf. Can she and Dakota stop this
ghastly killer before his next deadly playdate?

#1
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the
remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series
starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

In the
quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa
Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River.
It appears she was struck by lightning — except the weather is perfectly
clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge
Forensic Center’s director and chief, decides at the scene that this is
no accidental Act of God.

Her investigation becomes
complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an
anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though
subsequent lab results support Scarpetta’s conclusions, the threatening
messages don’t stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four
hours after Elisa’s death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is
involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino
and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley.

She also
enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta’s surprise,
tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for
someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can’t explain how this
anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make
matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy,
questioning the seasoned forensics chief’s judgment and "a quack cause
of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."

Detectives
Micki Dare and Zach Harris are back in TRIPLE SIX, their second
adventure in Erica Spindler’s supernatural thriller series The
Lightkeepers.

It's been three months since that
night - the night that Micki almost died. Physically, she's healed but
the nightmares remain, and she can't shake the feeling that more
happened that night than Zach is telling her. The only thing she can do
is try to carry on as normal and solve the latest case she and Zach have
been assigned to.

A string of brutal home invasions
are rocking New Orleans and the families targeted seemingly have nothing
in common. Why were these victims chosen? The deeper Micki and Zach go
into the case, the more they realize something isn't right. There's
something familiar about the person doing this - and it's a familiarity
Micki has been trying to forget. Suddenly, this case is hitting too
close to home and Micki has to decide if she really wants to learn the
truth about that night.